Okay, so I know we were all hoping we’d be able to successfully impeach Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Paul Ryan, Orrin Hatch, and everyone else in the presidential line of succession until we somehow wind up with a Democrat in the White House without ever having to make any meaningful changes to the Democratic party, but that’s beginning to look less and less like a possibility. The latest WikiLeaks drop killed the Russian hacking narrative we’ve been building our treason case on, and it doesn’t look like we’ll be getting the House majority and Senate supermajority we’d need to impeach him and remove him from office. Luckily, I have a plan.

The thing is —and here’s where it gets tricky— the candidate our team ran against him last year didn’t do so good. Her name was Hillary, and people weren’t too keen on her extensive history of pushing for constant military aggression at every opportunity, cozying up to big banks, promising Goldman Sachs executives that she’d lie to us for their benefit, promising to shoot down Russian military planes over Syria and provide “military responses” to the Russian cyber attacks which likely never happened anyway, the way her campaign colluded with the DNC and the corporate media to sabotage the campaign of her extremely popular opponent, the way she accepted funding from known terrorism supporters, how her family took bribes from Morocco and Qatar, the incredibly out-of-touch campaign she spent 1.2 billion dollars in corporate mega donor funding on, and the fact that she was essentially promising more of the same Walmart economy that’s been crushing Americans to death for the benefit of a few unfathomably wealthy plutocrats. If you can imagine.

Matt Taibbi who is a great writer has a new book out. Here is an interview with him about it.

Here is a brief excerpt

What does the next election look like now that the process has effectively been broken? As you mention in the book, Hillary Clinton’s campaign was actually using expensive advanced technology to measure people’s feelings, while her opponent was basically winging it. And he won. What happens next time? Trump rewrote the playbook for both parties. Will Democratic Party elites maybe start listening to voters instead of just pandering to them?
Well, that would be the logical conclusion, if you’re just sitting down and soberly looking at what happened. Theoretically, if you’re a Democrat and you look at the results from the last year, how could you not come to the conclusion that the next generation of Democratic voters is very concrete about what it wants? And it just so happens that a lot of the things people like Sanders were proposing, would also — theoretically — be very attractive to Trump voters. Sanders and Trump crossed over a lot. They talked about a lot of the same things. Sanders, in a way, sounded a lot of nationalist themes. For example, he thinks the person who is elected president should be more worried about the economic future of somebody in Wisconsin than about poor people in China. That’s a revolutionary concept in the post-NAFTA era. The new economic hegemony is that we should be lifting all boats everywhere, that’s what globalism is going to do, and the Sanders view doesn’t hold with that. He still believes that we’re a country and that we should take care of our own and I think those themes would resonate with ordinary people, even if they hate the socialist aspect of it. And I’m not a socialist myself. I just think the overwhelming support that he got was with young people, and mixed in with that is the fact that people are just tired of a government that doesn’t give them anything and promises them these 14-point plans that are going to pay off 20 years from now. I think listening would be really successful; that would be the logical thing to do. That means, of course, that it’s not going to happen. What they’re going to do instead is try to do something that looks like that, but is the opposite — a hired mannequin for the same financial interests that have always run the party. If they were smart, they would do the other thing. Don’t you think?

LD if you are reading this could you please fill in the empty boxes that signify approval or not as THey once were so new users get the hang of things.
It is a sign of recognition and for some of us it is appreciated.

Thanks Humphrey that would be a great help! I’ve been meaning to break things out into their own sub-threads more often (pipeline protests, the daily Sanders updates, ets, etc).. so everything is not in the stew that the roundups are, but just haven’t found the best way to do it yet.

When you say the boxes that indicate approval do you mean the like/dislike aka ‘rec’ for individual threads?

I had taken most of those features out to ‘dumb’ things down to figure out what was causing some of the bigger issues we was having a little while ago, but think we’re stable/safe enough now to put them back in so when I get home today will give it a go and see what happens!

Hey Humphrey–I think an evening edition would be useful. I often post a little in the morning, more in the afternoon, but the afternoon posts often get buried (even though once can click “Newest” to see the latest posts. Sometimes I don’t post at all, depending on how my schedule is. My question is are you offering to do an evening roundup every evening, or just on weekends?